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ALESTE
2
Under
construction
Aleste 2 B&W
406x552
(90k)
1989,
the year of the release of the best shooting game for MSX 2 in
the vertical way, and certainly one of the best in shooting game
history (it's my advice). COMPILE has released this game in 3
floppy disks, and had succeeded in doing more beautiful, more
difficult, more of all in fact than in the first episode, I can
only exhort you to play this terrific and wonderful master-piece
if you never did it before (even with an emulated version if you
don't have a MSX, it's better than nothing).
The
action take place 20 years after the fight against DIA 51, in
2039. RAY WAIZEN is now an officer serving on a space cruiser
since his brave deeds in first ALESTE. In this 20 years, he also
had the time to give concrete expression of his union with YURI
in the form of a splendid daughter, who might be over 19 years
old. Nevertheless, an unknown space fortress appeared from nowhere
start a massive attack, beginning with the cruiser of RAY who
perish in this aggression. The mysterious enemy seems to be humanoid
and plant hybrid but I can figure out their origin, their leader
GAIZEL has planned the destruction of mankind. RAY's daughter,
ELLINOR WAIZEN, who is pilot as her father, is going to face this
unequal struggle to save mankind and get revenge for her father's
death.
That
is the main plot of this NEO BIO CYBER SHOOTING ALESTE 2, other
scenes occurs during the game but I let you discover the fate
of all the characters by yourself. The game is as always perfectly
conceived and programmed. If you think it's too easy, keep the
select key pressed (on keyboard) while you are starting a new
game, and you will gain access to sound test and difficulty level
selection. There are 3 differents difficulty levels written in
Japanese kanjis ; the first is HITO for normal human being, the
second is KAMI for gods, divine beings, and the last is ONI for
demon (I succeed in finishing it, and I can confirm, it's truly
diabolical, I strongly advise you not to do in delicacy but to
use weapon n°6).
In derived
goods, I found few things, the ALESTE 2 paper-plane, and the mini
CD of the DISC STATION 8 with remix of one music of the game (and
a BLASTER BURN remix too). If someone possess that CD or MP3,
it will make me the happiest man on earth to hear it.
While I'm waiting, I had promised not to mention serial numbers
and specifications of ships in COMPILE shooting game, well...
I lied :
Ellinor uses the one-seater plane VF-80286
Length : 16,7m
Wingspan : 10,31m
Height : 5,37m
Weight : 26,7t (almost as a Sukhoi su-27 Flanker for comparison)
Power plan : Greenmail V/stol 2500kg
Maximum speed : mach 4,5
But where did he get all this precious informations ? Promised,
I'll stop...
| To
be forgiven, a MIDI
Music section, click on
ELLINOR SD |
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Few galleries and some screenshots found on the net and particulary
on
ENRICO BARBISAN's site, Italian website where you can find
other MSX game shots (I thanks ENRICO BARBISAN for his kind answering
to my demands).
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